Schedule

10:00 - 10:30 AM

Conference Check-In
RLP 1.302C

Panel 1:

10:30 - 10:45am

Brianna Heath
Walk/Ways: A Durational Performance

10:45 - 11:00am

Nichole Portillo

The Words That Bind Our Bodies: A Feminist (De)Construction of Power

11:00 - 11:15am

Pilar Caceres Cartagena
Sound world-making in Embodied Performance of Afro-Peruvian Female Hip Hop Artists

Q&A: 11:15 - 11:25am

11:25 - 11:40am

Break

11:40 - 11:50am

Welcome (Center for Women’s Gender Studies)

11:50am - 12:00pm

Keynote Introduction by Madee Puente-Bonilla

12:00 - 1:30pm

Lunch and Keynote: 

Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

On Reproductive Sovereignty: Histories of Abortion Networks in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands by 

1:30 - 1:45pm

Break

Panel 2:

1:45 - 2:00pm

R. Emily Castillo-Espinoza
Disrupting Unbelonging: Immigrant Latina Laborers and Mutual Aid as Resistance

2:00 - 2:15pm

Lillian Nagengast

“The Reason I’m Still Here”: Latina/o Placemaking, Coalition, and Labor in the Rural Midwest

2:15 - 2:30pm

Nancy Blanco

From Policy to Practice: Immigration Enforcement and Moral Distress in Health and Social Care

Q&A: 2:30 - 2:40pm

2:40 - 2:55pm
Break

Panel 3: 

2:55 - 3:10pm

Eloisa Moreno
Black Resonance: Liberatory Futures that Arrive in the Past

3:10 - 3:25pm

Leona Pang
Navigating (In)Visibility: Queer Agency in a Hybrid Space of Women-Only Bars in Beijing

3:25 - 3:40pm

Ryan Woodall
Challenging Boundaries: Queer Roles, Media Perception, and Carlos Cuevas’s Celebrity Image

Q&A: 3:40 - 3:50pm

3:50 - 4:05pm
Break

Panel 4: 

4:05 - 4:20pm

Kat Blackwell
U.S. Military Dependents as Toxic Tenants: Moldy Housing and the Debilitation of Empire

4:20 - 4:35pm

Reid Pinckard
Rural Queers Ain’t Dead Yet: An Analysis of State-Level Legal Challenges Against the Biden Administration’s Title IX Rule and its Impact on Rural LGBTQ+ People

4:35 - 4:50pm

Jestina Ricci
Disability and Melancholy: The Hunchback’s Struggle Against Desire/ability

Q&A: 4:50 - 5:00pm

5:00pm

Closing

10:00 - 10:30am

Conference Check-In
RLP 1.302C

Panel 1:

10:30 - 10:45am

Temitope Awe
Body Sovereignty: The Gendered Body and its Afterlives in American Literary History

10:45 - 11:00am

Francesca Passaseo
Autonomy Beyond Borders: The Wages for Housework Campaign and Transnational Feminist Praxis

11:15 - 11:30 am

Ana Cecilia Lerma
Sex, Labor, and Abolition: Trends and Alternatives for Prostitution Policy in the U.S.

Q&A: 11:30 - 11:40am

Lunch:

11:45 - 12:30pm

Panel 2:

12:30 - 12:45pm

Sara Skolnick
Cacerolazo: Protest Choreographies in the Break

12:45 - 1:00pm

Cesar Ivan Alvarez-Ibarra
Bello exceso: Transgressive aesthetics in the face of Regiomontano identity

1:00 - 1:15pm

Amanda Pascali
Translating a Sicilian Requiem: Rosa Balistreri’s Forty-Minute Protest Song and the Global Fight Against Femicide

Q&A 1:15-1:25pm

Break:

1:25 - 1:40pm

Panel 3:

1:40 - 1:55pm

Samantha Ceballos
Super-Activists: Reimagining Youth Protest in DCs Latine YA Narratives

1:55 - 2:10pm

Heather Wood and Anisha Aslesh

Femicide in Texas: History, Effects, and Movements Towards Recognition

2:10 - 2:25pm

Danielle Garcia-Karr
Gods of Jade and Shadow: Contemporary Speculative Fiction’s Role in De-colonizing Fairytales and Claiming Folklore

Q&A: 2:10 - 2:20pm

Closing:

2:30pm